Report: Tebow tried to prevent Hernandez fight in college

Tim Tebow tried to prevent former Patriots tight end Aaron Hernandez from
getting into a fight at a Gainesville bar in 2007 while they were teammates at
Florida, the Orlando Sentinel reported.

Hernandez, then a 17-year-old freshman, allegedly punched a bouncer in the
head after an argument over a bar bill, according to police records obtained by
the Sentinel. The bouncer required treatment for a burst right
ear drum.

When police arrived and could not find Hernandez, they interviewed Tebow
about the incident. According to police records obtained by the newspaper, Tebow
said he witnessed the dispute and tried to “help resolve the conflict.”

Tebow told police he tried to prevent any violence by telling Hernandez to
leave and making arrangements to pay the bill.

Meanwhile, Boston police have asked authorities in Hernandez’s hometown of
Bristol, Conn., for their help with a double homicide investigation linked to
the former NFL star, police said Tuesday.

Hernandez is already charged with murder in the shooting death of his friend
Odin Lloyd, whose body was found June 17 near Hernandez’s home in North
Attleborough, Mass.

The request from Boston police in the July 2012 double homicide was based on
evidence developed through the investigation of Lloyd’s slaying, Bristol police
Lt. Kevin Morrell said. He said police were asked to search the same home in
Bristol for both investigations, and a vehicle was seized at the address Friday.

Two people were killed in the shooting in Boston’s south end on July 15,
2012.

Boston police have declined to comment on whether Hernandez is being looked
at as a possible suspect in that case.

A man police were preparing to interview was killed in a car crash Sunday
night. Thaddeus Singleton III, 33, of Bristol, was killed when his car flew off
the road, striking a pole and eventually slamming into a local country club,
police told the Hartford Courant.

His death was ruled an accident. Singleton was driving a car registered to
Hernandez’s uncle, who is Singleton’s father-in-law, at the time of the crash,
according to police.

Colts’ Lefeged out of jail: Colts safety Joe Lefeged, 25,
was released from jail Tuesday following his weekend arrest in Washington on a
gun possession charge. He has been charged with carrying a licensed pistol
outside the home, a felony.

Lefeged, 25, has been charged with carrying a licensed pistol outside the
home, a felony.

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